If you’re looking for a no fuss VPN solution that doesn’t include opening ports, mucking with settings or bribing your IT manager, you may want to give Hamachi a try. A friend told me about it over two years ago and I’ve been using it since that time. One advantage is has over Windows built in Remote Desktop client is that it has clients for Linux and OSX in addition to Windows.
I blogged about this product before it was purchased by LogMeIn. I can’t tell that it’s changed much over time. But it didn’t need to.
I’m not going to provide a ton of detail here because Chris Pirillo does a good job of that here.
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